Ben's Mission to Nicaragua: New Records!!

So this month was full of stinking miracles!!! Both the mission and our zone baptized more in a month than ever before. Before the record of the mission was 234, and then this month of August we finished the month with 257 new converts to the church. In our own zone the record was 52, and this month we baptized 64!! The church is growing here in Puerto! The average attendance also went up about 70 from last month to this month! Sooo we are super happy! The Lord is truly blessing us for our work!!

Josefina and Andres got married and baptized this last week!! They are so awesome!! I was super impressed because for their whole wedding, baptism and confirmation they were totally ready and very punctual! (That never happens here!) They are the first baptism of my entire mission that we planned for 3pm and they were ready at 3pm... The only problem was that we had to wait for the other 17 people to show up that were also going to get baptized on Saturday! So yeah, we actually started at like 4pm but the service was so cool because we had 19 people getting baptized in one baptismal service! How exciting is that?

The wedding of Andres and Josefina!

More of the wedding.

The baptism.

More of the baptism.

The whole group!

Taking care of the clothes from the baptism!

The zone after the big achievement!

The Saturday morning, like I had mentioned, we had the privilege of hearing President Nelson. He came to Managua, sadly we could not go to hear him in person but I loved hearing him anyway, for the parts that we actually had internet. :/ It was a super awesome experience and he gave an awesome talk. I personally loved how he went through and named several different topics that we all need to learn more about. Some of them were the abrahamic covenant, the fall of Adam and Eve, covenants, tithing, the atonement, family, endowments, Jesus Christ, the prophet, and the temple. I think that these are all topics that we need to study a little more to really understand the doctrine of the church better and to be better members. That is a goal of mine :) so yeah, GREAT WEEK!!!!!